Ice-queb

This is the back-end server of the project that handles request from both the student-end interface and teacher-end interface for office hour queuing app. A couple of things I learned from this project:

• How to use socket.io to create a real-time communication between the server and client
• How to create a REST API using Express using TypeScript
• How to organize the codespace using the Model Router Controller (MRC) pattern
• How to set up a testing environment using Jest + Supertest + MongoDB-memory-server
• How to create a dockerized app
• How to set up EC2 instance on AWS
• How to use custom middleware to handle error
• How to write robust API documentation using Notion
• How to set up JSON Web Token (JWT) for authentication
• How to use Ngrok to expose the local server to the public
• How to set up a HTTPS server using self-signed certificate
• How to use Zod to validate the request body
• How to write a yml file to run the Github Action for test automation
• How to use eslint and prettier to format the code
• Better understanding of the Docker, Dockerfile